Wooden pail



Patentedlpr. 13, 1897.

J. P. RUST. WOODEN PAIL.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. RUST, OF KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

WOODEN PAIL.

SPECIFIGATIOlV forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,651, dated April13, 1897.

Application filed February 8, 1896. Serial No. 578,608. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN P. RUST, of Keene, in the county of Cheshireand State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wooden Pails, &c.; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view ofa wooden pail made according to my invention; Fig. 2, a plan view of thesame. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail sectional views, on a larger scale, stillfurther illustrating my said invention.

The object of the invention is to produce a wooden pail or similarfrusto-conical or tapered vessel having its open mouth or upper endwider than its base or bottom, having a croze or seat for the head ofsubstantially cylindrical form cut in the staves near the bottom, andhaving a bottom of substantially cylindrical form with its edge restingagainst said seat or croze and supported by the shoulder below but notabove the croze.

A is the body of the pail, of the usual tapering or flaring form, largerat top and smaller at bottom, and composed of staves a a a, &c., heldtogether by hoops b b in the usual or in any suitable manner. The stavesat their inner sides toward their lower ends, at the place where thebottom B of the pail is located, are each somewhat recessed or cutacross in a chamfer-like manner, as shown at c, the recess c of eachbeing coincident with those adjoining, so that what may be termed acylindrical seat or crozelor bearing is provided to the innercircumference of the body at its lower part, as from a, above to b belowin Figs. 1, 3, and 4. In other words, while the sidesof the pailconstituted by the staves a a Ct, &c., are at an angle to the verticalaxis of the pail the surface presented by the bearing just mentioned isvertically substantially parallel with said axis. It is not to beunderstood that this parallelism must be exact. It is suflicient for thepurposes of my invention that it be so to such an extent as in practicesecures the mode of operation and its accompanying results insubstantially the way and manner herein set forth.

It will be seen that the shoulder on the stave at the lower end of thecroze is ata right angle to the axis of the pail and not at a rightangle to the face of the stave.

The bottom B comprises a disk which, peripherally considered, iscylindric or substantially soin other words, the circumferential surfaceof which is vertical to the flat or practically fiat upper and lowersides of said bottom, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, and 4.

The flaring or tapered body A being constructed as hereinbeforedescribed, the bottom B is placed within the same from the larger endthereof, and the parts being properly proportioned the bottom isforcibly driven inward until its circumference is brought within and isembraced by the bearing a b, so that the vertical circumferentialsurface a of said bottom is forced snugly against the bearing a b and iscompressed at all parts thereby, so that the bottom is not only held inplace by such constriction upon it, but a snug tight jointis providedbetween the periphery of the bottom and the lower part of the body A,and inasmuch as the bearing a b is, vertically considered, practicallyparallel with the axis of the pail there is ordinarily no appreciabletendency on the part of the bottom 13 to slip either up or down, so thatthere is substantially nothing to impair the constriction exerted by thelower part of the body about and upon the circumference of the bottom toretain the latter in position. It will be observed that by the meansdescribed not only is the bottom held snugly and securely in place, butalso that it may be put in position and secured with very slight laborand'by comparatively unskilled operatives. Then desired-as, for example,when the pail is intended for holding or carrying unusually heavycontentsan extra precaution against the displacement of the bottom in adownward direction is provided by forming at the lower edge of thebearing a b a shoulder (1, against which rests the peripheral portion ofthe under side of the bottom, as represented in Fig.4. This shoulder, itwill be noticed, is intended simply to receive the hoop or hoops outsideof such head must be moved. By my construction the bottom of the pail isinserted from the flared open end Without moving the hoops and restsfirmly on the right-angled shoulder formed at the lower end or edge ofthe croze. The upper end of the croze merges with the surface of theinner face of the staves, leaving no shoulder above the pail-bottom.

The Weight on the pail-bottom is supported on the squared shoulder ofthe croze, with little or no tendency to spread the staves or strain thehoop.

Vhat I claim as my invention is A Wooden pail or vessel composedessentially of hoops and staves, the body being of frusto-conical form,the croze near the bottom end of the Vessel being cut in form of acylinder from the face of the staves and having a square shoulder below,and the pail-bottom of cylindrical form resting in said croze, wherebyin assembling the bottom may be entered from above Without moving thehoops, and rests on said square shoulder, substan tially as described.

JOHN P. RUST.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY S. READ, BURNHAM KALISOH.

